Ns32cg16?
Ns32cg16?
Hi,
Which laser printer did you dismantled and hence found the NS32CG16?
I've been looking for a working NS32K system for quite a number of years.....finding good links yet none leading to someone willing to part from one.
Maybe I should be looking for laser printers?
Acorn, actually having worked with the NS32K for the Cambridge WorkStation designed their ARM Processor as an antithesis of this processor.
Interestingly, the elegance and symmetry of the instruction set is what attracted Prof. Wirth (ETH) for the design of the Ceres-1, -2, and -3 workstations used in their graduate and undergraduate computer laboratories. The book "Project Oberon" describes the software aspect of these workstations (Operating System, Language, and full source code). M.Eng. and Ph.D. Theses describe the hardware aspect.
I'm not sure if this was one of the first portable "Unix" systems ever but the Symetric /375 (i.e. half a VAX-750 in a smaller package) was based on the NS32K.
One of the co-processor board based on the NS32K (the DSI-32) was used as the hardware base for an urban planning tool for quite a number of years.
From a few old references, the NS-32008 was supposed to be able to run 8080/8085 object code natively......this might have been marketing words only.
Two more oddities:
i) A radiation hardened version was designed and fabricated for space missions. I think Scandia 3300?
ii) The last generation of the series NS-32764 (a.k.a. "Swordfish") never made it to market.....although some of the designers were given key-chains embedding their dies (self-destructed?)
P.S. gcoville - don't be surprise to receive one day a pm from me!